All About Graduate Advisors, Mentors, and Professors
Professors are people too - and sometimes require special handling. Need some advice on how to deal with your advisor? Look no further. These links will help you deal with the personal (and often sticky) issues that arise in your relationship with your advisor.
Is it necessary to give your professor a gift?
Faculty are essential to your graduate school existence. Learn how to manage them.
Relationships with faculty are critical to success in graduate school. The initial relationship is often formed in class. How do you make a good impression in class?
How do you approach a professor for help? Few students make it through college and graduate school without having to seek some assistance from a professor. How do you ask for help?
How do you choose a mentor? What characteristics should you look for?
Your relationship with your advisor is important to your success in graduate school and beyond. Let's take a look at the student-advisor relationship, from the advisor's perspective.
What to look for, avoid, and how to select an advisor for your graduate or postdoctoral work
Essential reading for students and faculty that thoroughly explains the responsibility of both parties.
What not to do and how to irritate your advisor quickly and effectively
An excellent detailed guide to establishing mentoring relationships. A must-read for students and advisors.
The Mentor is a free electronic journal about academic advising in higher education. It's goal is "to provide a mechanism for the rapid dissemination of new ideas about advising and for ongoing discourse about advising issues"
Important questions for your consideration
Most grad students never hear about life outside of the ivory tower and are left wondering about opportunities outside of academia. These tips will help mentors advise their graduate mentees about the world outside.
